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Quotes About Courage

You should be brave. Running away isn't brave. The brave thing, the hard thing is to tell the truth. To face up to whatever it is.
~ Juliet Marillier
The flame of spirit we all had within us, the light that never truly went out, even in our times of deepest despair.
~ Juliet Marillier
Everyone has responsibility for his own actions. But sometimes we can lose ourselves. Out of fear or sadness or guilt, we become less than we should be. It can be hard to find the courage to move on.
~ Juliet Marillier
It came to me that it was possible to be afraid of your own fear, and that such a phenomenon was utterly ridiculous.
~ Juliet Marillier
You've only just discovered you have a heart. Let it beat a little.
~ Juliet Marillier
Why should I change to please some man? If he doesn't like me the way I am, then he can get some other girl for his wife.
~ Juliet Marillier
Patterns could be broken; paths could be changed. All it took was courage.
~ Juliet Marillier
At some point, we'll both have to risk telling the truth.
~ Juliet Marillier
There's a difference between being afraid and letting people see that you are
~ Juliet Marillier
It's fighting on even when you're hopelessly outnumbered. It's seeing your friends dying all around you, witnessing the most shocking cruelty you could imagine, and still finding the courage to go on. It's doing the very best you can.
~ Juliet Marillier
Go armed with your formidable courage, your passion for truth and your strength of heart.
~ Juliet Marillier
The flame burns in his spirit and he is not afraid.
~ Juliet Marillier
We don't say cannot here at Shadowfell,' Tali put in firmly, silencing him. 'And we don't say impossible.
~ Juliet Marillier
The world needs its bards and its philosophers. It also needs its warriors, its heroes, its bold voyagers.
~ Juliet Marillier
Not every man is a liar, some of them, yes. Not all of them. There are good men out there, men who respect women, men with the courage to stand up for what they believe in. Men who'll be gentle with a newborn babe. Men who'll defend family and land and country with their dying breath.
~ Juliet Marillier
The blood of the heroes is closer to God than the ink of the philosophers and the prayers of the faithful.
~ Julius Evola
The legionary spirit is that fire of one who will choose the hardest road, who will fight to the death even when all is already lost.
~ Julius Evola
But, the true reason for the success of such new expositions [translated Eastern religious texts] is to be found where they are the most accommodating, least rigid, least severe, most vague, and ready to come to easy terms with the prejudices and weaknesses of the modern world. Let everyone have the courage to look deeply into himself and to see what it is that he really wants.
~ Julius Evola
But when Kaname asked: Would you like to separate, then? Misako answered: Would you? They knew that divorce was the solution, and yet neither had the courage to propose it, each was left face to face with his own weakness.
~ Jun'ichir? Tanizaki
I am not wrong: Wrong is not my name My name is my own my own my own and I can't tell you who the hell set things up like this but I can tell you that from now on my resistance my simple and daily and nightly self-determination may very well cost you your life
~ June Jordan
To begin is no more agony than opening your hand.
~ June Jordan
I am the history of battery assault and limitless armies against whatever I want to do with my mind and my body and my soul
~ June Jordan
love without being destroyed...
~ June Jordan
not his mother, nor did he hesitate to say so.
~ Jung Chang